Brooke Kamin Rapaport

Why is contemporary art now validating historic art and is this a growing trend in museum exhibitions? What choices do sculptors make in selecting materials and is there a return to traditional materials? What is the significance of the studio visit and is the practice a required ritual? These are some questions to be considered in my monthly blog posts. I am looking forward to online conversations with blog readers about issues in contemporary art.

I am an independent curator, contemporary art writer and lecturer and contributing editor at Sculpture magazine. As a guest curator at The Jewish Museum in New York, I organized Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend (2007) and Houdini: Art and Magic (2010). Recent articles have focused on Judy Pfaff (forthcoming, 2012), Bryan Hunt (2011), and Jean Shin (2008). For the exhibition Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, my catalogue essay described contemporary sculptors who were influenced by Calder’s work(2010). As a former associate curator in contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum, I organized Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960 (2001). I serve on the boards of Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, Madison Square Park in Manhattan, and the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College.

Hello Brooke,
Please “expose” the 1st 3D and monumental portrait of the world renown Canadian Ojibwa artist “Norval Morrisseau Changing into Copper Thunderbird”- a series of monumental works related to the life and oeuvre of Morrisseau, in Stratford, Canada.